Iron Man sentences

Share one of your powerful Iron Man sentences from your homework with the rest of the class. Choose the one you think is the most interesting.

Write a secret code!

A secret code writing is a way of passing people messages without other people understanding them. There are all sorts of ways of writing a secret code. I am going to use numbers.

In my code each letter of the alphabet have a number, like this:

A   B   C   D   E   F    G   H   I   J   K   L    M   N   O    P    Q     R    S    T   U   V    W    X    Y    Z
1    2    3   4    5   6    7   8   9  10 11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19 20  21  22  23   24  25  26

So 'HELLO' would be written '8-5-12-12-15'.

Task 1) What is this word?  6-15-15-20-2-1-12-12

Task 2) Write your own message using the code above. Put dashes between each number so they don't get mixed up or confused.

Task 3) You might even want to make up your own code and explain how to 'decipher' (read) it.

Have fun!


Mr Bertenshaw

Some links you will enjoy

To see a baby playing table tennis, click here.
Post below your comments - what is he doing well?


To play some human body games, click here.

Post what you learnt from these games.

Enjoy half term!

Mr Bertenshaw

Maths Challenge: Six in a circle

Apologies for the lack of posts on the blog in the last few weeks. Thank you to those who have found us some greetings in other languages. Meanwhile, here's a challenge for you to think about.


A class of 30 children were numbered from 1 to 30. Here are some of the class:

Their teacher set out a ring of 6 chairs.

Child number 1 sat on the first chair, child number 2 on the second chair, child number 3 on the third and so on going round the circle, up to child number 6. The teacher then asked child number7 to stand behind child 1, child 8 to stand behind number 2 etc. They continued this pattern until all the children were either sitting on a chair, or standing behind one.

Questions:

1) How many people were standing behind each chair?

2) Which child numbers were standing behind child number 3?

You have until Thursday 9th February to post your answers below. I will publish all the answers on that date.
 Make sure you say who you are!

Enjoy,

Mr Bertenshaw